{"id":16840,"date":"2019-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.causevox.com\/?p=16840"},"modified":"2024-05-08T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:24:10","slug":"irish-international-immigrant-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/blog\/irish-international-immigrant-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish International Immigrant Center Doubles Online Giving With CauseVox Donation Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much difference can a <\/span>donation page <\/span><\/a>make, really?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Turns out, quite a bit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Want proof? Look no further than the Irish International Immigrant Center. When they switched from a PayPal donation page to an embedded pop-up CauseVox donation page, they saw remarkable growth, almost immediately.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IIIC Uses CauseVox To Grow<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Irish International Immigrant Center (IIIC) in Boston, Massachusetts, assists immigrants from Ireland and around the world as they integrate into American society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They empower immigrants and refugees by providing the legal, wellness and educational support they need to build successful lives. Founded by Irish immigrants in the 1980s, today the organization works with people from over 120 countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Online fundraising is a developing priority for the organization, and the PayPal portal that the organization was using for donation processing was holding them back. They were improving their online presence with a new, visually-appealing website, and it was time to update their donation page, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The PayPal portal was generic. There was no way to include any information about the organization or customize it in any way. It was visually boring, and the organization couldn\u2019t use it to collect donor data beyond an email address. <\/span><\/p>\n

Megan Miller, the Development Director of the IIIC, knew she needed a better option, and in the fall of 2018, she switched to CauseVox.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long to see a difference. In the same period the previous year, they had raised $33,000 through Paypal. “The CauseVox Donation Page has helped us raise $60,000 in the past 7 months,\u201d Megan says. \u201cIn the same period last year, we raised significantly less for all of our online fundraising combined, including year-end. It has been really great for us.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why CauseVox?<\/span><\/h2>\n

When tasked with evaluating platforms that would help their organization raise more with less effort, Megan chose CauseVox because:<\/span><\/p>\n